Martyr
Minodora
Chinese Orthodox Christian woman, killed in Beijing in 1900 during the Boxer Rising.
Life
Minodora was a woman aged 59, wife of Herman Wang. She was killed on the night of 10 June 1900 (old style; 23 June in the new), during the Boxer Rising. The same list also names members of her family: son Andrew; daughter Anna.
In June 1900 proclamations were posted in the streets of Beijing calling for the killing of Christians and threatening with death anyone who sheltered them. Her name appears in the list of the 222 Orthodox Christians killed in the Boxer Rising, published in 1904 by the Brotherhood of the Orthodox Church in China.
In 1902 the Holy Synod of the Russian Church allowed the local veneration of the Chinese martyrs, and in 2016 its Council of Bishops blessed their veneration throughout the Russian Church. They are commemorated together on 11 June (old style).
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